Rindskopf v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to tbe Circuit Court for Washington County. Tbe plaintiff in error, Max Mindslcopf was brought before a justice of the peace in Washington county, in September, 1872, on a complaint against him under the bastardy act, charging him with being the father of a child of the complaining witness, which child was then living and was about one year old.
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ERROR to tbe Circuit Court for Washington County. Tbe plaintiff in error, Max Mindslcopf was brought before a justice of the peace in Washington county, in September, 1872, on a complaint against him under the bastardy act, charging him with being the father of a child of the complaining witness, which child was then living and was about one year old. The accused objected to the proceedings, and moved to quash the warrant, on the ground that proceedings for substantially the same cause had been instituted before one Otto Friebing, a justice of the peace in and for Milwaukee county, on the 5th…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
This is a proceeding under cb. 37, R. S., to charge the defendant with the support of a bastard child. The first objection taken here is, that the judgment of the circuit court is void for want of jurisdiction. It is said that the record shows that there was no adjudication by the justice before whom the complaint was filed and who issued the warrant, that there was probable cause to believe the defendant to be the father of such child; and that without an adjudication of that fact by the justice, the circuit court had no jurisdiction of the proceeding. Mr. Justice Lyok, in the case of State…
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